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on Archbishop Foley enjoys a quip at the media conference last Thursday when he announced the goahead for the University of Notre Dame. Also enjoying the levity are the planning vice chancellor Professor Geoffrey Kiel and the president of Notre Dame University Indiana, Father Edward Molloy, Holy Cross.

Behind the panel are the artist concepts of the university in its preferred Fremantle location. The drawings czn be viewed at the Fremantle City Council.

NDA's new dimension for Australia See page 7

... or how NDA will be run

The running of the University of Notre Dame Australia will be in the hands of a board of governors.

They will run it according to the vision and the mission statement they have set themselves, Archbishop Foley said at the conference last week to publicly launch the university's next stage.

"I would imagine that staff employed at the university would recognise that vision in the Catholic tradition," he said in reply to a question.

The archbishop said he would not be a member of the board of governors a fter the initial establishment.

Eventually, he said, the bishop of the day would be able to declare his understanding of Church teaching "as he always has and will do and if it seems to clash with one of the professors or lecturers at the university, that too will be noted in public".

Archbishop Foley said it would then be up to the university to determine the standing of such a person within the

university.

"There are constant changes in which the Church relates to a changing world," the archbishop said to another questioner, "and I believe our proposed institution will take place in the forefront of that adaptation, in being relevant to the society in which it lives."

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Father Edward Molloy, president of Notre Dome Indiana university said his institution employed a wide range of academics, including some 40 professors in the theology department and that although in its history the university had "moments of disagreement" there had been a very harmonious rela-

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There are certain parts of Church teaching that are based in the tradition of the Church and I would expect that this university will carry on vigorous research in coming to terms with an understanding of those truths, eternal truths but in a very concrete situation.

Archbishop Foley said that the Church through its members speaks with many voices.

"There are certain parts of Church teaching that are based in the tradition of the Church and I would expect that this university will carry on vigorous research in coming to terms with an understanding of those truths, eternal truths but in a very concrete situation."

tionship with the Catholic Church both with the local bishop and the Church at large.

"I think a Catholic university has to be a place that has a margin of tolerance and the expectation that people of goodwill will disagree on occasions. The role of the theologian is different from the role of the bishop and of the pope and those need to be recognised as serving the

Church in complementary ways," he said.

"There is an excessive pre-occupation in some circles on those small areas of disagreement on a particular point.

"We have found out, however, that this has never led to a lack of contribution or a sense of loyalty to the well-being of the broader Catholic Church."

Noting that his university had faculty members from other Christian and non-Christian traditions, Father Molloy said the broader Christian community was also in constant conversation about these same things.

"It is important for us to be a place where that kind of confrontation and meeting of minds can take place.

"In the best interests of the Church it is desirable to have a forum like this where great ideas can be debated.

"If Notre Dame Australia has the great good fortune as ours the local bishop will consider this university a great resource in the life of the Church and not an obstacle to it."

The four targets Vice Chancellor of planning Professor Geoffrey Kiel spelt out four aims of Notre Dame Australia at the conference last week.

They are: • To provide, through teaching, pastoral care and personal development for the total education of its students.

• To support an academic community noted for excellence in teaching and research in major academic disciplines and the learned professions.

• To support the role and work of the Church in Australia and other countries by helping to meet its need for special training in particular areas of service (eg: education, health, welfare, management, theology) and by promoting research and debate on issues relevant to the intellectual life of the Church.

• To make a special

contribution to the economic and social development ot the State and the nation.

NDA will be unequivocally a Catholic university but will have an open, non discriminatory enrolment policy, welcoming students and staff of all faiths, who accept its Catholic ethos.

It will encourage freedom of thought and expression and seek to form strong links within the community.

The university will be Catholic in its mission statement and philosophy, in its civil and canonical legal structure, in its staffing and employment policy, with its code of ethics, in its curriculum requirements for philosophy and theology to be undertaken by all undergraduates, in its community worship and prayer and in its corporate and personal commitment to social justice.

SCHOOL EDUCATION POLICY The Chairman of the National Catholic Education Commission says that the Commission has serious doubts about the financial capacity of the Opposition to fund its undertaking to the non-government sector.

Mr Gerry Gleeson said that the Commission has had useful discussions with Mr Peter Reith, Opposition spokesman on education, but further talks were being arranged to seek clarification on a number of issues that gave concern to the Commission.

dollars. The Commission will be seeking assurance on how these undertakings will be financed, particularly as the Leader of the Opposition is talking of cuts generally in government expenditure.

Also, the Commission will be seeking assurances that priority will be given to needy schools so that school fees can be contained.

Mr Gleeson said that assurances would also be sought to supplement price increases, particularly for the costs of new salary awards for teachers. The government already supplements Commonwealth grants, but the Opposition has been vague on this matter.

Catholic concern and Libs make a pledge He said that the Opposition's undertaking would cost several hundreds of millions of

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Federal Liberal education spokesman, Peter Reith, has given a categorical assurance that the Liberals will hodour their education policy.

He was replying to a statement by the National Catholic Education Commission.

The NCEC had said it had "serious doubts about the financial capacity of the Opposition to fund its undertaking to the nongovernment sector".

"It's a very good policy,"

Mr Reith told me.

"And we had a very good record of support for non-government schools when we were in government last time.

"We're proposing four categories of funding — 20%, 30%, 40% and 50%.

"That's more support than people are getting now.

"In fact, that 20%, as a minimum figure, brings us back to where we were at the time we left office."

Mr Reith said the NCEC's concern had

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been caused by the economic general situation.

"That situation has been brought about by Government mismanagement," he said.

"Our policy says we're working to achieve our targets by 1995.

"The implementation of the policy won't happen overnight.

"But we intend to achieve our stated targets by the stated date.

"I'm giving you a categorical assurance of that.

"That's our policy. It's

black and white. We went into it with our eyes open.

"And it's backed up by the very good record we had in government last time.

"It's also backed up by the fact that the person who will implement this policy — that is, me — not only has a general interest in nongovernment school education but has, in fact, started a nongovernment school.

"I don't like to blow my own trumpet — but not

many members of Federal Parliament can say they've started a school."

The NCEC statement also said it would seek assurances "that priority will be given to needy schools".

Mr Keith said he felt the minimum figure of 20% for wealthier schools was "very reasonable".

"It's a figure we were at when we were in government before," he said.

"By 1995 we will be back to where we were before.

"We're really talking

about funding families, not funding schools.

"Our policy is directed at supporting the right of families to send their children to the schools they believe best suit their views about how children ought to be educated.

"If people attack the right to a basic, minimum level of support for all families, they jeopardise the foundation on which the whole system operates."

Mr Reith said he had founded a Christian

community secondary school, on a broad ecumenical basis, at Philip Island, Victoria, in 1980.

"It was my idea, and I brought it to fruition," he said.

"It started with 53 students. It now has 354, and it's going from strength to strength.

"I started it during the time of Fraser Government — and that government very was supportive."

Mr Reith became Shadow Minister for Education on May 12.

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Australian Catholic Relief has been told that in one region of the Sudan, there are three areas of major need after food and water supplies — construction of shelters to home everthe increasing numbers of displaced people, a truck to transport water supplies more easily, and cloth to make clothes for the living and shrouds for the dead.

"Following the recent political changes, we need the reports from our partner agencies to know how the various relief programs are going," said Mr Michael Whiteley, National Director for Australian Catholic Relief.

"All news that we have had from the Sudan points to not only the need for peace in a general sense, but for cooperation from the government in Khartoum to move food in the

most economical manner to those starving in the south of the country.

"Airlifts of food from Khartoum would be much cheaper than those from neighbouring countries. With support by the government and a cessation of conflict, road, rail and river-barge transport to areas of need would be possible."

The report from Sudanaid, ACR's partner agency in the Sudan, notes that there are still a multitude of needs within the country for food for displaced people in camps in the southern areas of the country, including Juba; support for relief-giving structures and personnel in the south generally; and assistance for displaced people continuing to migrate to the north.

"It has been estimated that 121,465 metric tonnes of food are needed for an eightmonth period. While

most of this has been promised by various countries and agencies, the real need is to get the food to the people who need it — the real problem now is the delivery of food.

"An emergency program organised by United Nations, 'Operation Lifeline Sudan', has been quite successful, despite a very slow start, in getting food supplies through, especially to Juba in the south. In many areas, there is now some food in storage.

"Air-lifts, however, cannot be sustained and it is to be hoped that there will be an opportunity now to better use other means of transport. The rainy season is about to start, and in many areas the roads, and even the rail systems, will become unusable.

"Sudanaid will continue to distribute our food to needy families throughout Sudan. They report that the number of

displaced families coming into Khartoum is still on the increase.

"Plastic sheeting is being provided to displaced families, so they can build some sort of shelter for themselves.

Medicines, seeds and tools, and finance to cover transportation costs to programs in other areas of the country, are still needed.

"Australian Catholic Relief in 1988 sent' $102,000 for the work in the Sudan. So far, Sudanaid has received pledges for half their budget for 1989 — another $1.5 million is needed to accomplish the task they have set for themselves to meet the needs of their people.

"1 would encourage all Australian Catholics to think of Sudan as they pray for peace in the world, and sacrificially support the work of the Church in areas of need — one of which is Sudan."

Applecross tops list PERTH ARCHDIOCESE REGISTERS 13 pc INCREASE

As Perth archdiocese scores a 13 per cent increase in its 1989 P roject Compassion donations, Applecross parish is again the far and away leader.

total of $413,000, Applecross showed the highest increase over 1988 donations and was well on the way to nearly doubling the next highest contributor North Beach parish.

Out of an archdiocesan

Increases

over

1988

The contributors Figures in brackets is for 1988 and the asterisks indicate, the increase for 1989:

St Mary's Cathedral Applecross Armadale Attadale Balcatta Ballajura Bassendean Bateman Bayswater Beaconsfield Bedford/Inglewood Belmont/Redcliffe Bentley Brentwood/Willetton Carilla Carlisle City Beach/Wembley Downs Claremont Cloverdale Como/Kensington Cottesloe DianeIla Doubleview East Cannfngton East Fremantle East Victoria Park Embleton Floreat Park Fremantle Girrawheen Glendalough Gosnells Greenmount Greenwood Guildford Hamilton Hill Highgate Hilton joondanna Kalamunda Karrinyup Kelmscott Kenwick Kingsley/Woodvale Kwinana Leederville Lesmurdie Lockridge Lynwood Maddington Maida Vale Manning Maylands Melville Midland Mirrabooka Morley Mosman Park Mount Lawley Mount Yokine Mundaring Nedlands North Beach North Doubleview Ocean Reef Osborne Park Palmyra Queens Park Riverton Rivervale Rockingham Scarborough Shenton Park South Lake South Perth Spearwood Subiaco Victoria Park Wanneroo Wembley West Perth Whitfords/Mullaloo Willagee Wilson

*12,213 *25,556 *5,581 *2,022 2,750 *184 *7,820 *3,807 *1,959 *2,126 *11,500 2,300 *2,163 *10,210 *470 *3415 *2,000 *2,535 *3,929 6.552 2,905 *7,050 7,342 1,402 *1,656 *2,947 *1,914 *6,550 *1,545 4,420 2,107 *3,356 *4,623 6,220 *717 *936 *10,250 *3,160 3,073 *2,705 *3,255 *1,683 *5,180 780 *1,901 *2,827 2,790 1,228 *6,116 *1,270 1,549

(10,410) (21,851) (5,140) (1,726) (2,900)

*5,253 *3,777 *1,816 *3,030 8,190 4,000 *1,709 *3,044 * 3,757 1,976 *10,091 *14,946 1,062 *864 *10A02 5,206 *2,288 *12,582 500 *11,230 *4,076 *2,568

(4,312) (3,338) (1,630) (2,483) (8,190) (4,860) (1,639) (2,932) (2,800) (3,019) (6,676) (13,457) (1,903) (550) (5,342) (6,113) (1,285) (8,100) (500) (7,842) (2,788) (2,160)

*3,590 2,053 *6,278 3,217 *2,417 3,447 *2,345 *7,420 *680

(5,609) (1,495) (1,396) (1,659) (10,000) (3,100) (1,779) (8,121) (452) (2,675) (1,856) (1,678) (3,257) (7,292) (3,926) (6,880) (8,420) (1,612) (1,533) (2,500) (1,022) (4,065) (1,414) (4,794) (2,236) (2,882) (2,579) (643) (700) (10,150) (2,500) (3,370) (1,878) (2,681) (1,200) (4,029) (925) (1,736) (2,644) (3,306) (1,445) (5,127) (1,238) (2,361)

(2,300) (2,250) (6,056) (3,402) (2,200) (3,787) (1,775) (5,575) (262) ' (605)

were

recorded in

metropolitan and country parishes.

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Substantial increases in recorded were Osborne Park, Riverton, Nedlands, Applecross, Rockingham, Bateman,

Floreat, Bassendean and community attitudes Brentwood/Willetton. which in recent years Margaret Collopy, the have tended to focus on archdiocesan director of Australia's declining relACR described the result ative prosperity," she as a strong and generous said. statement.

"For instance, Austra"In many ways it runs counter to prevailing lia's foreign aid has

declined to a mere 0.036 per cent of GNP. "The response is a strong affirmation of ACR's support for justice issues and its commitment to partnership with arrangements

donor countries.

"It is also a celebration of our own abundant blessings and an acknowledgement of really how well off most of us are in comparison with the world at large."

Old reports make nonsense of cruelty claim Nevertheless, there neglected children, it is tendent Education was a formal agreement between the Govern- Department) in July 1949 could be no justification clear to us now that for such incidents as are many children suffered ments of the United says: to have long-term emotional Kingdom and Australia.

I was much impressed alleged stress, especially conUnder the terms of this by the happiness of the happened.

While Governments cerning their origins and Act, the Commonwealth children, their willingMinister for Migration ness, courteousness and and private agencies identities as human was the sole guardian of obvious good health. apparently operated the persons.

I believe that all agenthese children until they There is a complete child migration scheme absence of restraint. with good will, believing cies must continue to reached the age of 21.

Composition confined they were providing a assist former child This responsibility was usually delegated (in largely to letter writing better opportunity for migrants in whatever Australia) to State and I concur in this underprivileged and ways seem appropriate.

Directors of Child Wel- procedure. Arithmetic. fare and (for Catholic In Group A work to level agencies) to the Catholic of Class with some seeking to pray & hear anew the Word of God Episcopal Migration and added mensuration is 1989 Programs. "Keep My Word" (Introduction) being attempted and Welfare Association.

"All I Have Is Yours" (Luke's Gospel) Homes such as Clontarf progress is noted.

Books for individuals - s4 plus postage From 1946, Boys' Town and Bindoon were subParish Development Resources, ject to regular inspection Bindoon was under the PO Box 504, Eastwood, 2122 Phone (02) 858 5228 from both medical and supervision of the Child Welfare Department in educational supervisors.

Dr Stang reports (27/6/ WA. It would seem impossi1949) after an inpsection ble to corroborate allegaof Boys' Town Bindoon: Ihave not the slightest tions of neglect or cruelty hesitation is saying that after such a long period the children at Bindoon of time.

Certainly they should were the happiest lot of CONTACT LENS CONSULTANTS children thatIhave seen be interpreted in the in one place - their light of the prevailing 321 8151 Perth Picadilly Arcade physical development in circumstances of the 384 5605 Cottesloe 19 Napoleon St just 18 months is times, and in the context of official reports such as Fremantle 30 Market St 335 2602 amazing. those quoted above.

Ithink the brothers and those in charge are to be highly congratulated for the very great improvement which has taken place in these children in the short space of time that they have been in their care.

A public seminar sponsored by There was no evidence of repression or inhibition at all. There was no evidence of fear or -eff -0011 , ( repression at all, this was really quite outstanding.

"AS A,/( l?ereeld Their physical development would not have Retreat House, Camelia St, North Perth been so pronounced had Sunday July 30, 1989, 9am-3pm. there been any mental Free Admission - lunch provided. worries or unhappiness.

Speakers and topics to be covered: The "Child Guardian A report from Mr H. Superin(District Act" of 1946 (England) Jeanes "Adolescent Suicide" and "The Funeral"

Alleged experiences of cruelty claimed by some f ormer residents of Catholic institutions cannot be condoned but the allegations are coming from only a handful of hundreds who received c are, says Christian Brother Gerald Faulkner, the WA-SA provincial superior.

"It is a pity the positive experiences are not being recorded also," Brother Faulkner said.

He was referring to allegations circulating in the wake of an English television documentary and an accompanying book that has received much publicity in England.

The book covers child migration from England over 300 years but focusses on allegations of abusive and cruel treatment of child migrants to Australia after World War H. A number of voluntary agencies, of many churches, were involved in the scheme, and some of the allegations are made against the Christian Brother establishments at Clontarf and Bindoon.

"It is estimated that some 10,000 children came to Australia from England during a 30year period that ended in 1967," Brother Faulkner said, "and it is important to view the whole child migration scheme in the light of social and economic circumstances of the times," he said.

In a statement, Brother Faulkner said:

COUNTRY Bencubbin Beverley Bruce Rock Gingin-Chittering Goomalling Kalgoorlie Kambalda/Norseman Kellerberrin Kondinin/Kulin Merredin Moora New Norcia Northam Quairading/Cunderdin Southern Cross Toodyay Wongan Hills/Dalwallinu York

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The impending application by Notre Dame Australia for university enabling legislation from the WA government marks more than another stage in the procedure.

Clearly, it is the decisive turning point that brings the notion of the university out of the clouds of pious hope and down into the challenging, if daunting, reality of making it happen.

The entrepreneurial planners faced a difficult dilemma over the past two years. As with any new invention, its design work had to be kept under wraps while the very hard parameters of the proposal were hammered out by top opinion in ecclesiastical, legal, educational and financial matters.

On the other hand, as a proposal that has to bear on the Catholic and wider community some would have wanted to view the question as a remote academic exercise to be kicked around in the atmosphere of a parish picnic assembly. Others of a more mischievous view of the proposal would probably not be persuaded whatever the circumstances.

Now unveiled for active comment and consideration, the NDA university proposal will be a culture shock for the Australian Catholic Church and it will be a significant, albeit small, factor in the shape of Australia's future higher education directions.

Few Catholics today have long enough memories — or even know that under Cardinal Gilroy's aegis in Sydney in the 1940s a Catholic university proposal for Sydney was pondered for a long time bt..rt inconclusively by the same Holy Cross order involved in NDA today.

It was unlikely to have succeeded given the mood of Australian ecclesiastical and inter-city rivalry of those days. Curiously, Australia's priest seminaries, followed by some Eastern teacher training institutes, and now a local Murdoch theology course, have gone largely unnoticed as Catholic forays into tertiary degrees.

NDA in Perth will initially be a cultural shock to the Eastern seaboard Church wondering if anything good can come out of Nazareth. The university proposal already has been, and will be further marketed in the Eastern States given that both enrolments and financial endowment will be anticipated from supporters in those quarters.

For the wider Church NDA has been described as the challenge for Australia to catch up with the rest of the world's Church and its some 900 higher learning institutes — not a few of them in the Third World where the Church's future lies.

The NDA Perth story also needs to be read against the struggle and the hard-won funds solicited from parishes and individuals 35 years ago to fund the first stages of St Thomas More College, until government and other sources made it financially independent.

In an ever-expanding Catholic student market, NDA should be positive and complementary to the service of the Crawley college. NDA's strong emphasis on residential pastoral care will only re-inforce the Church's view that faith and religion are first to be lived and experienced in community before being learned from a book.

Statistically, if even 60% of NDA's early enrolment comes from WA, that number of places would cater for the Year 12 streams of merely two Catholic secondary colleges today.

Financial considerations aside, the difficulty and not the choice of entering NDA may eventually be the determining question.

Defined carefully as an independent university in the Catholic tradition, NDA has no illusions about its culture shock on an Australia just shaken out of its complacency about the future availability of tertiary places. With a projected enrolment of 2000 — only two thirds Australian — NDA will hardly dent the empires being demolished and taken over in present tertiary battles.

NDA however will help society ask questions about the sacred cows of Australian thought that only Big Brother government paternalism knows best how to educate citizens, and the right of entrenched 'neutral' philosophies to dictate the value-deficient, take-away appearance of so many schools and higher institutes today.

NDA therefore will shock Australia because it will unashamedly ask not only Catholics, but others of sympathetic good will, for substantial endowments of its student fees and other costs. Catholic education effort has grown on the determination to fund what we deemed to be important. NDA will be another, if different, chapter in that tradition.

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A new guide for training of priests VATICAN CITY (CNS): The Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education has published new guidelines on the teaching of the church's social doctrine aimed at improving the training of future priests, according to a congregation official.

While many seminaries effectively teach this doctrine, "there are others which leave much to be desired", said Archbishop Jose Saraiva Martins, congregation secretary, during a June 27 presentation of the new document.

The archbishop specifically cited some seminaries in Italy and the United States where "more time is given to sociology than church social doctrine".

lying principles and values, the criteria to be used in making responsible decisions, general "directives for social action", and particular concerns for the formation of seminarians and their professors.

it is not enough to know the major teaching documents, it said.

The document warned of the problem of bias in the social sciences.

The new document, titled "Guidelines for the Study and Teaching of "It is absolutely necesthe Church's Social Doc- sary for knowledge about trine in the Formation of the major social encycliPriests", was seven years cals to be ensured durin the making and ing" seminary formation, involved consultation it said. with the Pontifical CounThe guidelines called cil for Justice and Peace. for the "continuous The congregation's new updating" and "ongoing guidelines outline the formation" of seminary history of the church's professors. To teach the social teaching, its under- church's social doctrine,

"In study and interest in the social sciences, the danger must be avoided of falling into the snares of ideologies that manipulate the interpretation of data, or into positivism which over-evaluates empirical data to the detriment of an overall understanding of man and the world," it said.

The document warned against "Marxist analysis" and the "liberal

the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankovsk.

Father Mykola Simkailo was sentenced a week later.

The liturgy was part of a churchsponsored worldwide day of prayer for the legalisation of the

that the Ukrainian church will be legaused in September but Ukrainian sources say this is part of a "disinformation" campaign "to discourage Ukrainian Catholics throughout Ukraine from contin-

ideology that inspires the capitalistic system" as ideologies capable of biasing sociological analysis.

The guidelines state that underlying the church's social doctrine are such "permanent principles" as the dignity of the human person, the importance of human rights, the relationship of the person to society, and the importance of the common good.

The church, the document said, is not promoting an "alternative socioeconomic and political system".

Catholic priest jailed KIEV: A Ukrainian Catholic priest has been sentenced to 15 days imprisonment by Soviet authorities for celebrating a Divine Liturgy attended by 10,000 people.

The liturgy took place last month in

Ukrainian Catholic Church.

Ukrainian The Catholic Church was declared illegal by Soviet authorities but has continued to exist clandestinely.

Soviet officials say

Korean unity Mass near truce village PANMUNJON, South Korea (CNS): Thousands of Koreans took part last month in a Mass for the reunification of the Korean peninsula near the of village truce Panmunjon.

At the same time, a South Korean priest was reported to have celebrated a similar Mass in communist North Korea — facing possible criminal charges in the South for doing so.

Father Kim Sung-hun of Priests for the Realisation of Justice arranged the South Korean Mass at the village of Imjingak. During the liturgy, his organisation released a statement expressing hopes to "tear down the wall of division".

"Though for 5000 years the nation has been

suffering from division, more than anyone else, Christians have not had the confidence to carry the cross of division:' the statement said.

The priests' group appealed to North and South Korean authorities to make efforts toward reunification. The priests called for an end to slander and hostility between the two countries.

The priests' group also called for declarations of non-aggression, reductions in armed forces, removal of nuclear weapons from the peninsula, and a phased withdrawal of all United States armed forces from South Korea.

According to news reports the Mass in North Korea was celebrated by Father Paul

Mun Gyu-hyon, from the Chonju Diocese, which is located approximately 200km south of Seoul.

He is the second religious figure from the South to visit North Korea since the 1953 ceasefire.

Father Mun hoped to promote reunification with his visit, North Korea's official Korea Central News Agency said.

Chonju's priests said they knew nothing of Father Mun's visit.

Benedictine Abbot Placidus Ri Dong-ho, moderator of the Committee for Evangelisation of North Korea, said he "regrets that Father Mun's visit cannot bring about a good result, and that it also infringed on the mind of the church".

uing public services and demonstrations for the legalisation of their church".

Ukrainian Catholic officials have no evidence that the Soviet government plans to legalise the church.

Alcohol abuse singled out KNOCK, Ireland: Bishop Cahal Daly of Down and Connor believes that governments in Ireland have not faced up to the problems of alcohol abuse.

Officials in the Irish republic and Northern Ireland had succeeded in convincing much of the public about the hazards of smoking, but their approach to health education regarding alcohol has been comparatively weak, said Bishop Daly.

"There should certainly be more stringent government controls on drink advertising," he

said. "Much of this advertising has been gravely objectionable in a moral sense."

Bishop Daly was preaching during celebrations at the Marian shrine at Knock, to mark the centenary of the founding of the pioneer Total Abstinence Association. He said he believed that there should be co-operation closer between the churches in the temperance movement.

The influence of the Protestant churches in promoting temperance is admirable, he said.

'Victory for life' WASHINGTON (CNS): The Supreme Court's decision in the Missouri abortion case is "a victory for life", and the biggest winners "are the tiniest people of all — children within the womb", said Archbishop May, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

He said that the Supreme Court in upholding the Missouri statute has "indicated that Roe vs Wade has been the source of much confusion and has expressed a willingness

to reconsider it".

He said national polls "show clearly that most reject Americans abortion-on-demand", which "ft- welcome news".

"We will work toward the day when the unborn child will enjoy the full protection of the law," he said. "We also carry the hope that all of America can work together to support both the pregnant woman and her unborn child, so that no woman need ever feel pressured to resort to abortion."

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The screen suddenly goes to black and then across the screen comes the written message "A world that doesn't deny itself anything could use a few men who do" followed by the outstretched hands of a priest elevating the host.

The 30-second ad closes with the archdiocese phone number.

The spot, to be run by local stations as a public service announcement, is aimed at recruiting men to the priesthood by contrasting the virtues of a life of sacrifice and service to examples of affluence and conspicuous consumption.

Cardinal Law, after seeing the advertisement, said: "It's

an invitation to give up everything to follow Christ in an

environment where you can have it all."

The spot was produced by a Catholic advertising firm

boss who offered his services after reading an article about his pastor's concerns over the shortage of priests.

The agent organised about 30 people who donated their time to a project that would have cost $90,000 for a spot of the same quality.

Boston archdiocese has only five in its graduating class this year compared with about 50 in the early 1960s. The archdiocese serves about 1.8 million Catholics.

Cardinal Law praised the "high quality of the well produced spot"and stressed that he strongly believes that today God is calling just as many men to the priesthood, but the difference is the world in which we live makes it more difficult to hear that call.

"The advertisements make the call heard more clearly.

"We live in an affluent society," he added, "at the same time there are always those who see beyond that. We have in our seminaries very successful yuppies who have decided that they wanted their life to respond to a deeper meaning in their heart."

No politics in papal visit DILI, East Timor (CNS): The apostolic administrator of Dili asked East Timorese Catholics to avoid politicising Pope John Paul's planned visit in October.

Groups favouring integration of East Timor with Indonesia see the visit as favouring their cause, while those opposing integration, calling themselves the "independents", regard it as a stumbling block.

"Since the papal visit to East Timor in October is truly a spiritual, religious, pastoral one, all East Timorese Catholics, either clerics or lay People, should not inter-

pret the visit as if it has Dili, alluding to the See's certain political motives," establishment directly Bishop Carlos Filipe under the Vatican to Ximenes Belo said in a avoid the delicate politimid-April pastoral letter. cal issue of being within Bishop Belo said, "As the Portuguese or universal pastor, the Indonesian bishops' conHoly Father will come ferences. That issue was not for self-government. tied to the controversy He would not propose over Indonesia's rule of any political settlement the island territory.

He asked Timorese for the East Timorese believers to reflect on cause."

Political affairs were the their Catholic faith, the their membusiness of lay people meaning of Church, the in bership and those called to a to the obedience their said. he mission, political teaching his and pope The pope, bishops and priests were called to authority.

He said the pope as develop morality rather than take sides with universal pastor is too holy to be linked with political parties. worldly politics. the said Bishop Belo "It would be a mistake pope was the Bishop of

Defining the Conception GAETA, Italy: Pope John Paul paid a 12-hour visit to the city south of Rome where Pope Pius IX began the process of defining the Immaculate Conception.

Gaeta "is the cradle" of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, Pope John Paul II said, recalling that from Gaeta on February 2, 1849, Pope Pius sent a letter to the world's bishops asking t heir views on the subject.

This letter was "the decisive step toward the definition of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, which took place in Rome several years later, December 8, 1854", said Pope John Paul.

Pope Pius IX, at a time of mid 19th century political turmoil in Italy,

decided to leave Rome and live in Gaeta under the protection of King Ferdinand H of Naples.

Pope Pius arrived in 1848 and was attracted to the Church of the Annunciation, which had a well known painting of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception.

His decision was made after repeated meditation before the painting.

Pope Pius ix also was attracted to a Marian shrine in Itri, about 20km north of Gaeta, where he also meditated on Marian theology.

The result was a conviction that the belief should be formally defined and the follow up decision to gather the opinion of the world's bishops on the Immaculate Conception.

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to exploit his presence among us for certain political goals," he said.

Passages in the pastoral letters were addressed to integrationists and independents, asking the political rivals to act as Catholics during the papal visit.

Bishop Belo said "the true faith stands above all political views, interests and ideologies".

"I really disagree with all campaigns either from the leftist or rightist groups who would exploit the papal visit for secular ends," he stated.

UTRECHT, Netherlands as apostolic administra(CNS): Cardinal Adrianus tor in 1983, of the J. Simonis of Utrecht has miserable plight and backed a call by an East unrelenting suffering of Timor bishop for a refer- your own beloved endum on the contested people."

Cardinal Simonis said status of the islandhe offered "the earnest territory.

Cardinal Simonis, in a sympathy and strong letter recently made support of the Dutch public, told Bishop Car- Catholic community los Filipe Ximenes Belo with your courageous that he is "deeply con- struggle".

Bishop Belo — apostolic vinced" that the bishop's plea for a plebiscite on administrator of the Indonesian -occupied Diocese of Dili, which encompasses East Timor East Timor is just.

The cardinal wrote — asked UN Secretary Bishop Belo: "Your frank General Javier Perez de and bold plea for a Cuellar to sponsor a referendum as the most referendum on the status democratic means of of the territory. ascertaining the supreme His letter to Perez de desire of the Timorese Cuellar, also alleged people can only be the human rights abuses by fruit of ample thought Indonesian authorities. and bitter experience, East Timor, a former since your consecration Portuguese colony, was

annexed by Indonesia in 1976, but Indonesian

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Nations.

Indonesia was a Dutch possession for more than 350 years, becoming fully independent in 1956.

Indonesian The bishops' conference and the papal pronuncio to Indonesia, Archbishop Francesco Canalini, have distanced themselves from Belo's referendum call.

The Indonesian government and the Indonesian bishops want the Dili Diocese to join the bishops' conference.

But the Vatican has said it will retain jurisdiction over the diocese until the East Timor question is resolved internationally.

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Aussie soil at golden jubilee Mass From left: Sr Bernardine, Sr Kathleen and Sr Helena.

A container of Australian soil was carried to the altar for the golden jubilee Mass of three West Perth Sisters of Mercy late last month.

Along with a crucifix, bible and bread and wine the Daly family presented the soil as a symbol for the Irish born Sisters Kathleen O'Farrell and

Helena Hartnett and Australian born Sister Bernardine Daly.

Sitting beside the three jubilarians were their sisters, Sisters Celine O'Farrell, Scholastica Hartnett, and Teresa Daly.

Celebrant Father Dan Foley congratulated the sisters and their families

in Ireland and Australia that had each given two daughters to the Sisters of Mercy.

In her address, Congregation Leader Sister Beverley Stott, drew parallels of the lives of the three sisters, from Segundo Gallileo's book The Music of God wherein a holy man came to

live in a wicked and corrupt city and tried by his virtuous life to influence the people of that city.

However, his presence irritated them and they cast him out.

On reflection God did not destroy that city because he learnt that not all the citizens had

cast out the holy man and these had remembered his good life and tried to reform themselves and persuade others to change their ways.

Sister Beverley commented that the lives and efforts of the remnant in the story was an allegory of the lives of the three

Sisters Kathleen, Helena and Bernardine.

She stressed that the lives of good people do not necessarily result in spectacular reform and a new moral society.

Nevertheless, there is always among us, some, through whose contemplation, a more truthful and direct path to God is

observed and followed.

All three sisters had spent many inspirational years in the classroom interracting with students, teachers and parents.

They had sat down with parish groups and with the poor and those who dwell on the fringe of society.

Face-lift for St Brigid's Presbytery The frail looking Presbytery of St Brigid's Church, West Perth, will get a facelift soon.

Work on the $200,000 project is expected to begin in less than 10 days' time and expected to be completed in six months.

Refurbishing of the presbytery will also include the building of a new wing.

"It will give the building a fresh look," according to Scalabrinian priest, Father Luigi.

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The new wing will provide an additional office, a kitchen, dining room and two extra bedrooms.

There will also be an inner patio between the church and presbytery.

New toilets will also be built for the public.

The renovation was found necessary to keep pace with the current times, according to Father Luigi who said that the parish was expected to get a third priest in the near future.

New projects boss Roger G. Veary, formerly of Markalinga Management Limited of Perth will assume the position of Director of Projects of St John of God Health Care System.

He will assist the Chief Executive Officer and Corporate staff of the System to address the development needs of the St John of God hospitals, Perth, and the two acute care hospitals sponsored by the Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition in Bicton and the Sisters of Mercy hospital in Mt Lawley.

Other St John of God hospitals have imminent needs under consideration for possible develop-

ment in Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia. The goal of these developments is to provide quality services while meeting the community health needs of the people.

Mr Veary, who has spent the past 12 years with the Markalinga organisation, has been an active participant in the Private Hospitals Associas WA ation of committee member and honorary secretary.

He is also a member of the Board of the Australian Private Hospitals Association Inc. He is the immediate past president of the Rotary Club of Floreat.

In 1988 he was a nominee of the Western Australian Business Executive of the Year, largely for advancing the concept of exporting hospital services.

Mr Veary will continue to be involved in the Private Hospital Association in his new position.

Roger Veary . . . he spent 12 years with Markalinga Management Ltd.

The St John of God Health Care System is the first Catholic Health Care System in Australia.

It is sponsored by the Sisters of St John of God who have had nearly a hundred years of providing for the health needs of the people.

In the early decades of this century they gener-

ously responded to the requests of parish priests, bishops, doctors and citizens to minister to the sick and dying.

Some of these early hospitals were closed as

needs changed, but the Sisters will continue to respond to present and future needs through the system organisation with new initiatives as well as existing hospitals.

New dimension in higher learning The NDA university will bring a new and valuable dimension to higher education in Australia, the vice chairman of the planning committee and chairman of the Catholic Education Commission, Dr Peter Tannock, said last week.

He said it would be "an alternative, and a contribution to the development of a publicprivate mix in higher education in the long term interests of Australian education and Australian society".

Dr Tannock said also that the university would bring a unique quality of life to the environment in which it is located. The benefits would be cultural and educational, but also of a commercial nature.

"We are not blind to the potential social and economic impact of this university wherever it is located," Dr Tannock said. "We have attempted to design and propose it so that it will have only positive effects." .

Other benefits he said were research and a contribution to the creation and expansion of knowledge which is the fundamental function of universities.

NDA's preparation of people for the professions would help meet the growing needs of a student population, Dr Tannock said.

Mr Horgan (left) and Dr Tannock.

"We like the idea of bringing to WA, students from other parts of Austrqlia and overseas. That sort of dynamic mixture of students is an especially good one as far as educational effects are concerned."

Dr Tannock said the planners are "especially enthusiastic at the prospect of bringing overseas students, including some from the college of Notre Dame in the USA." "The university will have great benefits for the people who attend it. They are the heart and the core of what the institution is trying to do.

"For a student to attend this university will be a joy and an experience of a lifetime and that is what we are dedicated to providing."

Dr Tannock said that in discussion with the Federal Minister for Education Mr Dawkins it had been accepted that NDA would not be part of the national unified system and would not be eligible for direct financial support from the Commonwealth as other institutions receive.

"However, we have raised with Mr Dawkins that students at this university be eligible for the same kinds of financial support that students at all private education institutions receive such as Austudy and Abstudy."

Very close look, then the go ahead The experience of Bond University prompted the planning board to look "very closely" at where Notre Dame Australia would be drawing students from, the board chairman, Mr Denis Horgan said.

"We wouldn't be sitting here today if

we thought that was an impediment to us going forward," he said at the official l aunching announcement.

"We come from a different ethos and come from a different university model, from a Catholic system where we are used to paying fees

and we have associated ourselves with one of the great universities of the world — and of the Church — which has had a long and creditable history in private education.

"It would be totally against our ethos if we established a university to which only

those with wealth could go to," Mr Horgan said in pointing out the strong support system of grants, loans and opportunities for students to work that would help them pay their way through university.

"It will be an upfront challenge with

us that no student, if he or she has the academic ability, will not be able to enter the university irrespective of the sociobackeconomic ground from which they come."

Initially, he said, it was hoped 60% of the students would come from WA, 15% from

Eastern Australia and

20% from abroad, and possibly 5% from Notre Dame Indiana.

In 1989 dollars, he explained, the fee structure would be $ 8 0 0 0 -$ 12 .000 depending on the disciplines.

Mr Horgan said the challenge facing the

planning board is to raise money from people of goodwill to the support university.

"Worthwhile institutions can generally attract public support and we feel confident that this will appeal to people as a worthwhile institution."

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Father Molloy. . . enthusiastic about the project so far.

A 1.992 opening of the University of Notre Dame Australia will coincide with the 150th anniversary of Notre Dame University in Indiana, the president Holy Cross Father Edward Molloy said last week.

He called the double event a configuration of the two institutions in a strange and hopefully thoughtful way.

Three top executives of the American institution are on the planning board of NDA and were in Perth for the weeklong discussions that preceded the announcement that the Australian project would now be put to the WA Governfor enabling ment legislation.

Father Molloy said that Notre Dame had been a Catholic university right from its beginning and

had been able to serve society effectively by providing students who are well educated, articulate and able to exercise in the leadership community.

"We have also been able to serve the Church well," he continued," as a forum in which some of the great issues and problems of our times can be debated openly and vigorously, where we can gather together scholars from a variety of disciplines who can find in the environment of a Catholic university a distinctive kind of place to do their research and writing and to bring that back into the classroom."

Father Molloy said his university was proud of the involvement of its the in students community.

"We have tried to cultivate a sense of

responsibility for the quality of life and the well being of our community through special care for the poor or the elderly or those who cannot take care of themselves."

He said that this model of a Catholic independent university had worked well and those involved had collaborated effectively with public universities both nationally and in the state of Indiana.

"I would imagine that this same sort of useful collaboration and recognition of mutual interdependence would exist in WA and throughout Australia."

Father Molloy said the visitors' attraction to the local beauty of the surroundings of WA had been enhanced by the friendliness of the people of Perth, Fremantle and

WA they had come to know.

"We are all extremely enthusiastic about this project so far. As for the future we would see our assistance role as through advice rendered, and making personnel available in the short and long term.

"We find in our student body a great interest in Australia as a country and we can see study programs developing here and student exchanges in the future."

Father Molloy pointed out that the two institutions will remain separate and independent, and have their own autonomy.

"The last thing we would want to do is to impose some sort of alien model.

Australia deserves an Australian Catholic university."

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Tale of 'a client cities'

The word 'ancient" is a relative term.

I remember the milk bottle clearly — the kind made out of glass that the milkman used to leave on doorsteps early in the morning.

It came as a jolt to see some of the bottles being sold as antiques.

WhenI went to study in Europe after my ordination in 1964, I first went to England, where anything Elizabethan — all the better if it had a thatched roof — was considered ancient.

Then I went to Paris, where "ancient" meant Romanesque and early Gothic. Notre Dame Cathedral was ancient.

Then it was Rome, where nothing is really ancient unless it is from the days of the Caesars.

Finally, I studied in Israel where Roman things were actually considered quite modern. Unless something could be dated prior to Jerusalem's destruction in the sixth century BC, it did not deserve to be called ancient.

When all is said and done, the word "ancient" refers to anything old and dated, anything we would not make in the same way anymore and that has become significant.

Glass milk bottles were of little interest back in the '40s. Today they evoke an entire era of the past.

It is the same for the church.

There are, for example, "ancient" places associated with the coming of

By Father Eugene LaVerdiere, SSS

the faith to North America.

For the church, there are also the places associated with St Francis Xavier and the early Christians of Asia, with Japan, Korea, Vietnam and the Philippines, all of whom have their martyrs from several centuries ago.

"Ancient Christian", like the word "ancient" pure and simple, is a relative term, although we often use it to speak of the earliest Christians, especially those of the first century who are referred to in the New Testament.

Some Christian places are little known to most of us, but I would call

them ancient. These are places that speak of beginnings. The memory of them is the memory of times long gone that made their mark in the church, at least in a particular area.

Bagamoyo is a site a few kilometres north of Dares-Salaam in Tanzania on the east coast of Africa.

Were there a good road, one could get to Bagamoyo in a short time. But as things are, you can count on several bumpy hours driving around rocks, puddles and fallen trees, through palm groves and over surface roots.

It is hard to call it a road even by backwoods

standards, but with a Jeep or a land Rover one can get to Bagamoyo.

At one time, Bagamoyo was a port at the end of the East African slave route. Slaves were brought here from the interior. From here they were shipped to Zanzibar, where they were sold locally or to the various Indian Ocean slave markets.

It was here, in the late 19th century, that the church first came from Zanzibar to the East African coast.

Those who brought it were the European Holy Ghost Fathers.

They came out of Christian and human concern for the slaves.

The Holy Ghost Fathers intercepted the slave trade by buying as many slaves as they could and freeing them in the mission area where they were given a Christian education.

To appreciate Bagamoyo and the beginnings of the church on the East African coast, there is nothing like a visit to the cemetery where many native Christians are buried but also a large number of Holy Ghost Fathers.

The two most striking things on the tombstones are the date the missionary arrived and the date he died. The time between those two dates is usually short — six months, one year, 15 months. Two or three years was a long time.

The early missionaries

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Filer As you look at the silent Elpne epitaphs among the palm trees and as you walk Br such around the buildings of Pia es the old compound, now sPilk of nnings, largely deserted or given het their all over to some other use, melory is you think of those who tbremory died here. ()flaws They knew when they io gone agreed to come that in all 84 made probability their lives th4. mark inl e would be cut short. ckich in a They literally offered PatICUlar their lives for the East are.

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NThoto Ithink Bagamoyo ought fie KNAto be on everybody's list BID, July of "ancient" Christian 1C1989.) places.

Clement's city

Highways, byways of yesteryear In the fall of 1955 I began my first course in the archaeology of the early church.

I was living in France, in a village 30 miles northeast of the port of Marseilles.

The little town, like many neighbouring towns — often no more than clusters of farmhouses and barns situated around a church — bore witness to its ancient roots by bearing the name of an early Christian saint.

The countryside where I lived was changing from scrub forest to a settled Roman province just as Christianity was beginning to spread.

From time to time a road repair or a building project would lift away the debris of the last 1700 or 1800 years to reveal a ruin dating from early Christian times.

Our archaeology professor would hurriedly round us up to go and look at this new-found treasure, which he would explain in detail.

Fascinated workmen would crowd around to listen before the march of progress required that it be covered up again.

I recall being surprised at how small, even insignificant, these ruins all were. These were not the pillared and frescoed villasIremembered from my Latin texts.

Instead, there were rather unimpressive, cramped brick rooms, usually without windows, having little decoration, perhaps with cold

have struck their pagan relatives as beyond hope and their neighbours as bizarre. But to the public stone benches around authorities the Christhe walls. tians were more. They Not exactly poor peo- were a threat to public ple's houses, these were order. more likely the homes To a government that and workshops of hardequated the practice of working craftsmen and the official religion with shopkeepers. loyalty to the state, What interested us preachers of a new faith were the scratchings and were suspected of carvings we saw. disloyalty.

For here and there, So many of the first scraped into a brick or Christians apparently patch of stucco, were the were cautious. They did secret signs the Chris- not deny their faith if tians made: a fish, interrogated. But neither because the letters in the did they go out of their Greek word for fish are way to draw attention to the first letters of the themselves. phrase "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour"; or a mixing of the Greek letters for the name of Jesus; or some other symbol that Christians would recognise but which would attract no The very mention of notice from anyone else. the name of some For those of us accuscities evokes a whole tomed to a very visible flood of mental and Christianity, it is hard to e mot i ona l recall that Christianity associations. sometimes grew in hidTaken merely as cities ing. These early Chris— points on a map, tians apparently went places where people live out of their way not to — these cities would be draw attention to no different from any themselves. other cities.

At Christmas that same But because of their year I travelled to Rome. impact on human hisThereIhad an opportuntory, they are so impority to see even more tant that they have Christian remains. become symbolic.

Again, the same simHiroshima, Leningrad, plicity, the use of workAuschwitz: Just saying rooms and shops as the names creates moods gathering places, and the too complex to be same secret signs. But defined. aLso the reason for it all.

Among the ancient For in Rome you see the Israelites there was a city signs of the persecutions. like this — Babylon — The first Christians may

By Father David K. O'Rourke, OP

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-'e:f itthe.-:I.fl irst-i-n a long line of Christian teachers, rites the Rev. Robert Wilken.

In the ancient city of Alexandria, Egypt, Clement became one Clement gave Christians down-to-earth advice on the kinds of things every human being deals with every day. Photo, July 10, 1989).

The world of the Gospels was rural.

Jesus lived and taught among people who dwelled in small villages, tilling the land, raising sheep, fishing on a small inland lake.

But in the decades after his death, Christianity set down roots in cities. In a few decades it was almost entirely an urban movement.

Most Christian congregations were located in the larger cities of the Roman Empire, cities such as Antioch in Syria, Ephesus in Western Asia Minor, Thessalonica in Macedonia, Corinth in Greece.

One of the biggest challenges Christians faced in those days was to adapt and interpret the parables and sayings of Jesus — which use illustrations and exam-

A place whose very name is a symbol whose very name evoked a flood of images and associations. And it was to become symbolic among the early Christians too.

"Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great" (Rev 18:2). That was the joyous shout that went up in anticipation of the fall of pagan Rome, responsible for the horrible deaths of innumerable Christians.

But why "Babylon"?

Because this ancient city was so etched in the religious memory of people as to become a symbol of all oppressive human powers.

It was to Babylon that all but a few inhabitants of Judah had been

dragged mercilessly, brutally, in 587 BC. The armies of Nebuchadnezer, after a frightful siege, breached the walls of Jerusalem, ravaged the city, burnt the temple to the ground and started the people on a forced march of hundreds of miles to the flat, parched plains of Babylonia.

It was the end of the nation, of the royal house of David, of the religion of Yahweh — the end of the world, as far as God's people were concerned.

Or so it seemed. But actually the half century of exile was the crucible in which modern Judaism was formed, and it left a legacy to Christianity as well.

At first there was hopelessness. The people of Judah were put to forced labour on the irrigation ditches which brought water to the vast plains and sustained the

local economy.

After a day of bad breaking work, the thei to returned 0 compounds wretched baked clay. They had more hope of release, 0

DISCUSSION POINTS A place is "ancient" for Father Euguene LaVerdiere if it is a place of beginnings. When people go on pilgrimage to such a place, it is to reestablish contact with those beginnings — with roots that still are valued.

People today face challenges unique to their times. As they cope with these new challenges, people grow and mature. But can they also gr" through contact with their roots in special places and special people of the past? Why? Imagine that you are on pilgrimage to the HO Land. How is this more than a visit to the past — with to a museum-like land? How might this contact as a you stretch taught the places where Jesus person and as a Christian?

more hope of a future, than the Jews of the Nazi death camps.

But there were people whose faith in Yahweh was unshakeable: Some how, some way, some day, he would restore them.

People like these — the Prophet Ezekiel for one — kept alive their hopes, their dignity, their sense of identity. They were now no longer Hebrews (a sociological term) or Israelites (a national designation). They were Jews, the tribe of Judah.

They became a new People. Over the 50 Years, most of the original exiles died off and a Whole new generation took their place.

This new generation

grew up speaking a new language, Aramaic, the dialect of Babylon (and the language in which Jesus one day would preach).

They developed a new form of worship. Cut off from the liturgy of the temple, they formed synagogues — congregations — built around a liturgy consisting of an opening prayer, readings from their sacred books, response in psalms, a homily and a final blessing.

The first Christians, all Jews, adapted this liturgy to their own uses. We still celebrate the Liturgy of the Word, the part of the Mass when the Scripture readings are proclaimed, with essentially the same

pies from rural life, for example sowing seeds, winnowing wheat, grafting trees — to the challenge of living in a large urban society. This challenge continues to face Christians today.

When we think of the early church we have a picture of helpless Christians being thrown to the lions in the Roman Colosseum. But for most Christians life was more prosaic, even uneventful.

However, most were faced then as now with the daily task of trying to live as faithful Christians, learning to know when to compromise, when to stand firm, when to do as one's neighbours do, when to do otherwise.

Early on Christian leadthese ers faced challenges.

Over a period of several hundred years (about

By Father John Castelot format.

Over the 50 years of life conditions improved somewhat.

Many Jews made their way into the life of the city. They were able to aid the return from exile in 538 and the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the temple.

"Babylon" understandably became a byword for oppression, exile, suffering. Nonetheless, out of the pain came a new people, a new nation, a new language, a new liturgy — Judaism, in which Christianity was rooted.

Babylon. It is a symbolic place in the history of faith. It is a symbol of exile and death — and of rebirth.

that made Clement's task challenging. so By Another interesting fact Robert L. Wilken about Clement is that he held no official position in the church.

150 to 500AD), some His teaching was not wrote books and many primarily book learning preached sermons deal- but a conscious effort to ing with Christian life in form people's lives, to the city. help them learn good One of the earliest and habits, to devote time to most important of these prayer and contemplapeople was a man named tion, to engage in works Clement, who lived at the of love and mercy. end of the second and the Clement wrote the first beginning of the third manual on Christian centuries in Alexandria, ethics. a city in Egypt located on His book is not an the Mediterranean coast: abstract collection of Alexandria is still a moral principles, but thriving metropolis in down-to-earth advice on modern Egypt with a the kinds of things every Christian population. human being deals with Like all great cities, every day: eating and Alexandria was cosmo- drinking, how to wear politan, composed of jewellery and other ornamany different races, ments, the use of cosmetlanguages and religions. ics, laughter, sleep, sex, It was this diverse society clothing, shoes, how to

behave at a dinner party or at the public baths, even how one should walk on the street.

For Clement, holiness or virtue had to do with the "whole life", not a private spiritual or religious zone. Much of Clement's teaching is taken directly from the Scriptures (from the sayings of Jesus and from the books of Proverbs and Sirach), but he also cites precepts and maxims of pagan philosophers and moral teachers.

Clements is. the first of a long line of Christian teachers in the great cities of the Roman Empire who believed that Christians should not shun the world and that they should feel that they had a distinctive contribution to make to city life.

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In focus ...

The NC Religious Education Package explores the roots of the Christian life and in Ike process to see how those roots are linked to the present and the future.

This week we begin a journey to some of the special places in Christian history — places where the roots of Christian life come into view.

Our package this week is titled "The and Highways Byways of Ancient Christians". But as Blessed Sacrament Father Eugene LaVerdiere makes clear, the word "ancient" is a relative term.

To him, a place is ancient for Christians if it is a place of beginnings. Readers will enjoy his journey to a place called Bagamoyo in Africa.

Father John Castelot's Scripture article takes readers back to the city of Babylon — a place which came to hold a special symbolism for both Jews and Christians.

Robert L. Wilken takes readers on a walk into the ancient city of Alexandria, Egypt, where he introduces them to a man named Clement.

This was a great teacher in the history of Christianity, one

whose teaching, interestingly enough, concerns a theme of great interest to many today: Christians Christian life in the city.

Finally, Dominican Father David K. O'Rourke takes readers back to an early village Christian located not far from what today is Marseilles, France. This village is where Father O'Rourke had his first archaeology class. What he found was evidence of a rather hidden Christian life — one lived with a measure of caution out of a fear of persecution.

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Life membership honour Catholic Women's League to honour Molly Indermaur

The Catholic Women's League will bestow Life Membership this weekend on Mrs Molly Indermaur of Nedlands for 30 years of service given over to their organisation.

This lady has been heavily involved in many areas throughout the years but some have been distinct highlights in her life, she pointed out.

Being on the committee which sets up the World Day of Prayer is one of these, arranging services which take place at 138 centres in WA alone.

Global ecumenical services are held with most nations taking part. Each

year a chosen country prepares the service and submits it to the American head office which vets it and if passed, then used throughout the world for the international day of prayer, with each country translating it into their own language.

On that day, details about the country which prepared it, are given to people attending the service and in this way information about various lands and their way of life, is dispersed.

Selected as a codelegate of the CWL, Mrs Indermaur went to Melbourne to assist in the

service preparation.

Statue of Our Lady of World-wide collections Fatima (which travels taken up on that day are the world), in December given to the Bible Society j983. which then decide an She was also on the subappropriate country to committee when Pope issue Bibles to, translated John Paul II came in that particular through in 1986 and as a language.

CWL delegate has been Although the World to Tasmania, Victoria Day of Prayer is just over and the Northern 100 years old, Mrs Territory.

Indermaur was the first Archbishop Goodie Catholic to get on that appointed her for a two committee in 1987 as year term (which became previously Catholics had four years) on the Pregnot been invited. nancy Help board and Another involvement was chairman for a requiring a year's prepa- further year.

Pregnancy Help, Mrs ration, was as a CWL representative organis- Indermaur said, was set ing the visit of the up in fulfilment of International Pilgrim Archbishop Goodie's

36 years spent for good cause Thirty-six years of support to his spouse and community service is said: "Well if you're in it one big slice of a (an organisation), I'll lifetime to give to the stand by you." public, but Mrs Flo And that he did. Even to Balmer believes it was the extent of waiting for all worth while. six hours on one occasion

Mrs Flo Balmer — a lady whose contribution has been acknowledged by the Bicentennial medal — and who in turn acknowledges the man behind her who gave so much to her causes.

It amounts to unselfishness because usually people do community service on a voluntary basis, with no material rewards.

There are too the people behind the scenes who help them achieve that, and their contribution is no less great. Mrs Balmer's husband Harry was one of these stalwarts.

Dead for the last 10 years, he gave untiring

having brought his wife to various locational commitments, and being ready to take her home.

She didn't drive and so her husband Harry was only too willing to take her and bring her home from where ever her many community appointments were.

"And so this story is about Harry too," said Mrs Balmer who is a proud recipient of a Bicentennial Medal

given in recognition of 36 years of community service.

She has life membership of the Catholic Women's League of WA and the National Council of Women of WA, and has given her energy to other organisations and enterprises, some of her community work involving orphanages for several years.

Her designations and assignments within these groups are impressive and she has been president, held a portfolio, and been a delegate with several interstate representations over the years.

Along with people of

similar foresight, Mrs Balmer has fought for such things as the fencing of pools, compulsory use of restraining car harnesses for children, child-proof pill bottles and erection of railings around public steps through the National Safety Council.

Throughout her long career of giving to others, she has shown an obvious interest and given untiring effort to make things better for other people.

Mrs Balmer has three children, 12 grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren.

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Loving and creating...

"If I want my kids to be caring, then I really have to care.

"If I want my kids to be concerned about other people, then I really have to be concerned about other people," says American Mr Clayton Barbeau in his book How to Raise Parents.

Family therapist, author and lecturer, Barbeau knows a lot about children and marriage, having eight of his own and coming from a big family as he has himself.

A thinker who promotes his wisdom throughout his world travels, Barbeau believes: "The greatest work of life involves loving another and creating another, even as that other creates and recreates oneself." but perhaps the greatest truism is where he states: "Where you place your time — you place your life. And *here you place your life — you place your love."

According to Sister Glenys Yeoman, director of Bunbury Centrecare, he is the most entertaining and brilliant speaker she has heard, "particularly in the vital area of family and marriage relationships".

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"He is definitely not a boring speaker!" she says, and services such as this by Clayton Barbeau are a healthy approach to try and assist a society where marriage and family have been devalued, as have religious vocations.

"His series of talks planned for Bunbury and Kalgoorlie, will do more for the Church in terms of vocations than anything else.

"Because if marriage and family relationships are not nourished, then we can forget about all the 'vocation awareness' weeks and so on."

Barbeau has been interviewed on Graham Maybury's Night Line and on television.

Apart from advertised public sessions which commence on July 23 in Bunbury and run through to July 27 in Kalgoorlie, focussing on a theme Coping with Self and Relationships, Barbeau will also be giving a day for people active in the health, helping professions, and pastoral ministry.

Anyone requiring further information, should ring Centrecare Bunbury on (097) 21 5177.

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Mr Clayton Barbeau.

for her promise to help anyone with an unwanted pregnancy.

International Women's Year also took two years of preparation, with Mrs Indermaur being on the state committee which came under the auspices of the United Nations, opening in 1975 with a service in St Mary's Cathedral, representing the first ecumenical service held in Australia.

This was televised nationally on the ABC. Mrs Indermaur is still on the state executive and believes the CWL "is just great! It gives a lot of scope to use all talents

which may otherwise remain dormant and encourages women to move in wider circles, working not only with the parish, which is essential, but also the wider community where a Catholic viewpoint might not otherwise be presented."

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This group is more than social however, because they also offer support for anyone suffering the effects of divorce/separation/widowhood — in other words they are people who've suffered a similar experience and understand the process one has to go through in order to 'resurface'.

In particular they are a great organisation for those who feel they can't rejoin their church community (in the case of the separated or divorced) because of self-inflicted guilt that they don't belong anymore, or won't be accepted.

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Maureen Brennan, committee member of the Paulians. ments in some cases, so the Paulians provide that base to regenerate, grow from the experience, and return to the parish community that they need, and which needs them.

Father Owen Ryan from the Redemptorist Monastery is a great friend of the Paulians, according to committee member Maureen Brennan and takes part in many of their activities, providing the spiritual inspiration and steady presence they need.

The Paulians also interact with other organisations within the Austra-

lia wide self-help support network.

The association also recommends people in these circumstances, to attend a Beginning Experience weekend — one to be held at Safety Bay on July 21, which is to enable people to "gently close the door on their past marriage or relationship and gain the necesand wisdom sary strength to start again".

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THANKS Prayer to the Holy Spirit.

Holy Spirit, you who solve all problems, light all roads, so that I can attain my goal. You gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me and that in all instances of my life you are with me.

I want in this short prayer to thank you for all things as I confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you, in spite of all material illusions. I wish to be with you in eternal glory.

Thank you for your mercy towards me and mine.

This prayer must be said for three days after which the favour will be granted.

This prayer must be published.

Grateful thanks to the Holy Spirit for favours received.

Gerard.

Prayer to St Jude, Saint of the Impossible. Holy St Jude, Apostle and martyr, Most holy apostle, St Jude great in virtue, rich in Thaddeus, faithful servant miracles, near kinsman of and friend of Jesus, the Jesus Christ, faithful intername of the traitor has cessor for all who invoke caused you to be forgot- you, especial patron in ten many, but the Church time of need; to you I fly honours and invokes you from the depths of my universally as the patron heart, humbly begging of hopeless cases and you to whom God has things despaired of. Pray given such great power to for me who am so come to my assistance. miserable; make use I Help me now in my implore you, of that urgent need; grant my particular privilege earnest petition. I will accorded to you, to bring never forget the grace visible and speedy help and the favours you where help is almost obtain for me, and I will despaired of. Come to my do my best to spread assistance in this great devotion to you. Amen. need that I may receive Blessed Apostle with the consolation and suc- confidence we invoke cour of heaven in all my thee. St Jude, help of the necessities, tribulations hopeless, aid me in my and sufferings, particu- distress. Thank you St Jude larly (here make your & also Pope John XXIII. request) and that I may M.M. bless God with you and all the elect. I promise you 0 0 mother of Perpetual blessed St Jude Thaddeus, Succour, grant that I may to be ever mindful of this ever invoke your most great favour and I will powerful name: a safenever cease to honour guard for the living and you as my special and salvation for the dying. powerful patron and to Mary, most pure, Mary, do all in my power to most sweet, let your name encourage devotion to be always on my lips. Do you. Amen. Our Father. not delay to help me Hail Mary. Glory be . . . (3 when I call for your help.

In all my temptations and times.) Trevor. needs I shall invoke the name you bear — Mary!

Saint Joseph of Cuper- My soul is filled with tino, many thanks for your consolation, sweetness, guidance in studying for and trust when I realise my exams. Sacred Heart what a great gift the Lord of Jesus may your name has given to mankind. 0 be praised, your kingdom mother of Perpetual come. Mary.

Succour, grant the favour I confidently entrust to Thanks be to you Lord your care. Trevor.

Jesus Christ for a special Grateful thanks to Sacred favour granted. May your Heart of Jesus, Mother of name be honoured, Perpetual Succour, St praised and glorified. Gerard and St Jude for Throughout the world for prayers answered. ever and ever. P.A.J. Therese.

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Grateful thanks to Heavenly Father, Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and Holy Spirit for healing me through medical means instead of having an operation. Also grateful thanks to St Jude, Our Lady, St Joseph and St Anthony for interceding for me. J.M. 0 Holy Saint Anthony, gentlest of Saints, your love for God and charity for His creatures made you worthy, when on earth, to possess miraculous powers. Miracles waited on your word which you were ever ready to speak for those in trouble or anxiety.

Encouraged by this thought, I implore of you to obtain for me (mention your request). The answer to my prayer may require a miracle, even so, you are the Saint of Miracles. 0 gentle and loving Saint whose heart was ever full of human sympathy, whisper my petition into the ears of the sweet Infant Jesus. Who loved to be folded in your arms, and the gratitude of my heart will ever be yours.

13 Paters, Ayes and Glorias. Trevor.

Novena to the Sacred Heart. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, may your name be praised and glorified throughout the world now and forever. Amen.

(Say nine a day for nine consecutive days and promise publication.)

Thanks to the Sacred Heart for prayers answered. Liz. Thanks to all I prayed to for prayers answered.

T.M. Novena to the Sacred Heart. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, may your name be praised and glorified throughout the world now and forever. Amen.

(Say nine times a day for nine consecutive days and promise publication.)

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by TOM BRANCH Mixed Pennants Week 5 of the 1989 WACLTA Mixed Pencompetition, nants which concluded the end of the first round of home and away matches, saw three teams challenging for the top two positions in both grades.

A Grade St Jude's lost only one set in their match with St Norbert's, running out fairly easy winners, 9 sets 89 games to 1 set 55 games. The early sets were very competitive but in the later stages of the afternoon St Jude's were winning the sets a little more comfortably.

In the other A grade game St Cecilia's had an easy win over St Joseph's, 8 sets 84 games to 2 sets 25 games. Unfortunately for St Joseph's, two team members went to the wrong venue and this cost the team 5 sets. The match would obviously have been a lot closer if St Joseph's were able to find a full team.

B Grade Whilst the set scores did not suggest even matches, all B grade games were relatively close.

Pignatelli 1 moved to within 1 point of the leaders when they much defeated a improved Queens Park, 7 sets 74 games to 3 sets 51 games.

Dianella won their second match for the season when they overcame Liwara in another good contest, the final scores Dianella 8 sets 79 games to Liwara 2 sets 63 games. It is hard to visualise either of these teams being in a position to challenge for the finals, but they should remain competitive and win further matches.

St Benedict's had a percentage boosting win over Pignatelli 2, 10 sets 90 games to 0 sets 47 games. This match was considered to be the clash of the round and whilst it was acknowledged that St Benedict's could win, no-one was anticipating the ease with which they would.

The win shot them to the

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RECORDING the progress is parish Holy Shop c aretaker, janitor, newspaper boy, Leo Schellenberg, helped by more Record recruits gathered by Father Brian Ahearn PP. top of the table, replacing Pignatelli 2 who until this clash had been unbeaten.

Table A Grade Queens Park 6 St Jude's St Cecilia's 5 2 St Joseph's 0 St Norbert's B Grade St Benedict's 8 Pignatelli 2 8 Pignatelli 1 7 4 Dianella Liwara 3 Queens Park 0 Round 6 This weekend is a bye for all teams. Round 6 will be played on Saturday, July 22.

A Grade St Joseph's v St Jude's.

Queens Park v St Cecilia's.

St Joseph's will be keen to make amends for last week's loss and reverse their loss to St Jude's in the opening round when they lost 6 sets to 4.

Likewise, St Jude's will be keen to consolidate their position in the top two with a win in this match.

St Cecilia's and Queens Park drew in their first encounter, but since then Queens Park have remained undefeated and should win.

Selection — St Jude's, Queens Park.

B Grade Dianella v Queens Park.

Liwara v St Benedict's.

Pignatelli 2 v Pignatelli 1.

Dianella should win their third match in the competition when they meet Queens Park.

St Benedict's travel to Greenwood but should have too much strength for the home team Liwara and consolidate their position at the top of the table.

The Pignatelli derby should again be a close game. The winner of this match could determine which of these teams will finish in the top two.

Pignatelli 1 will be keen to avenge their first round loss.

Selections — Dianella, St Benedict's, Pignatelli 1.

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Untapped asset THAT'S HOW FOLEY SEES OUR YOUTH OF TODAY Whether you see our young people as a problem or an asset, youth themselves want to be Christ-centred people in a Christcentred church.

So said Archbishop William Foley in his homily on July 4, when three WA bishops celebrated the eucharist with the Catholic Youth Council at St Francis Xavier Church in Windsor Street, East Perth.

The gathering, the first of its kind, attracted forty members of the Youth Council and others involved in youth ministry.

All WA dioceses were well represented, with celebrants Archbishop Foley of Perth, Bishop John Jobst of Broome and Bishop Peter Quinn of Bunbury being joined by Fr Peter Downes representing Bishop Hickey of Geraldton and concelebrating Perth priests Frs

After Mass Andrew expressed his desire that a similar event become part of the CYC calendar each year as the opportunity arose.

Andre Ghouse and Damien McBain provided music for the Mass, during which Archbishop Foley spoke of the hopes held by young people for their involvement in the life and mission of the Church.

He reflected on the All present had an recent Archdiocesan opportunity to meet the Assembly, at which some bishops for coffee after parishioners saw youth the Mass, and many as a problem in the expressed their apprecia- Church while many tion of the chance to others valued the prespeak informally with cious asset of our young the leaders of our church people. communities.

The problem springs The occasion was the from not knowing how to brainchild of CYC chair- interest or involve young man Andrew McLean people in the life of our who was quick to grasp parishes, but today's the chance offered by the youth with their drive, Education energy and optimism can Adult Seminar which all four equally be seen as an bishops attended. untapped asset.

McShane, Michael Anthony Moester and Joe Parkinson. were Apologies received from Bishop Hickey, who was in Canberra, and Bishop Healy, who was ill, as well as from Bishop McKeon of Bunbury and Goody, Archbishop the whom under Catholic Youth Council was established over 10 years ago.

Towards the end of discussions at the Assembly one young man drew wide support when he stated that our efforts should aim at producing Christ centred youth in a Christ-centred church.

Others have since reflected that we could well add "in a Christcentred world", since the church's overall mission is to proclaim the Good News to all people.

Reflecting on current trends, Archbishop Foley said that he could see in young people a great enthusiasm for involvement and commitment to the real issues and problems which confront us in the world.

Young people are ready and willing to take action to resolve these problems, he said.

The challenge for the Church and for youth ministry is to be relevant to today's youth.

On the ball ...

Diary for youth This is a new feature for the youth page, a running list of events coming up on Perth's youth scene.

Send notices to "Youth Calendar, PO Box 194, North Perth 6006" at least a month before the event you want listed.

We will run the calendar every two or three weeks, depending on availability of space on this page.

Included here are some of the major events coming up in various youth movements in Perth.

JULY 16-20 YCS State camp.

21-23 CPY Northern regional camp, Pinjarra.

22 Albany Ball.

AUGUST 4-6 CPY Diocesan Christian Living Camp.

13 CPY Sports Day. 20 Youth Appeal 1989.

25-27 CPY Neway team retreat.

26-28 Antioch Renewal weekend, Gidgegannup.

27 Catholic Youth council meeting, North Perth.

Relevance, he said, is create friendships, opennot mere superficial ing the way for many fashion, but an ability to other young people to be speak to the real ques- reached. tions of our hearts.

But we cannot be Being relevant means satisfied unless those offering ways to deeper questions are approach and resolve asked.

The essential next step these life questions, or at is to address the really ways of underleast standing the real issues burning questions of becoming whole people, our youth identify.

These issues are not all which includes growth external, of course, in our relationship with because our first task is to God, and of taking action make sense of our own in the world.

The gospel for the Mass lives and where we are was from Matthew 25, in heading. which God separates the Options which do not virtuous from sinners address the spiritual side according to their wilof mankind are irrele- lingness to help others in vant, because they ignore need. one of the basic aspects of "In so far as you did this every person, thereby to one of ihe least of leaving us incomplete these, you did it to me" is and unfulfilled. a passage which never A fundamental task for fails to challenge our youth ministry, then, is commitment to practical to include God and our charity. faith in all that we do.

The Archbishop drew Purely social events can on Cardinal Cardijn, break down barriers and founder of YCW and

YCS, when he spoke of our need to see the real issues of our world, to reflect on them in the light of faith and the teaching of our church, and then to act, to do something concrete to resolve these problems.

CYC members, and all Catholic youth, were challenged by the Archbishop to see, to reflect in faith, and to take practical action in their lives.

This is not simply a personal approach to relevant issues, he said, but a way of attracting other youth who sometimes accuse the Church of being irrelevant.

Only through really living our faith, which includes taking real action to address real issues, can we fulfil our mission to young people and show that the Church is the only community which is truly relevant in today's world.

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Germaine's brief life was marred by loneliness almost from its start in 1579. She was the daughter of a farming couple who lived in Pibrac, a small French village near Toulouse.

Germaine was born with scrofula, a tuberculosis.

She had deformities that affected her appearance.

Her right hand, for example, was deformed and useless.

When Germaine was eight years old, her mother died. Her father soom remarried. Germaine's stepmother positively disliked her.

Her stepmother actually refused to let her sleep in the house or eat with the rest of the family.

Germaine had to sleep in the stable with the sheep.

Her stepmother sent scraps of food out to the stable for her to eat.

As soon as Germaine was able to work, her father and stepmother sent her out to the pastures with the sheep. She spent the rest of her life as a shepherdess. Her family totally neglected her. The stable and pastures were her home.

Alone with the sheep most of the time, Germaine found in God a faithful friend. God cared about her no matter how she looked, no matter how others treated her. She learned to talk with God in the fields by day and in the stable at night.

Whenever she could, she went to Mass and communion at the village church. She trusted God

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to take care of her flock while she was in church.

Though Germaine received so little love from her family, she became a most caring person. Perhaps because she suffered so much, she felt the pain of others deeply. She shared her scraps of food with beggars.

For years the villagers avoided getting too close to Germaine. Many made fun of her. But over the years Germaine's patience and kindness slowly won them over.

Her patient courage, her lonely life and her family's ill-treatment of her eventually touched their hearts. So did her prayerfulness at Mass, her kindness to everyone and her generosity to the poor.

Eventually the villagers began to treat Germaine with respect and reverence. Most amazing of all, even her father and stepmother had a change of heart. They finally told Germaine she could come live with the family if she wanted to.

But after so many years alone, Germaine decided to continue living as she had been. One night not long afterward, in 1601, Germaine died in the stable where she had come to feel at home. She was just 22.

Those who knew her felt she was a saint. Stories of miracles and remarkable events spread rapidly.

Pope Pius IX canonised St Germaine of Pibrac in 1857. Her feast is June 15.

An oval puzzle

Beginning in the center, fill in the oval puzzle with the words which answer the clues. Al the words are in the story

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Germaine grew up 2. Where Germaine slept 3. What Germaine took care of 4. Who was Germaine's faithful friend pop

5 Many people who knew Germaine felt she was a 6 This is the month of Germaine's feast day 7. Germaine shared this with the beggars

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Kids who are into reading

The Puffin Monsterfoke Book by Martyn Forrester, illustrated by Dark: McKee. Published by Puffin. $4.95 Be chilled and thrilled by the monsters, vampires, ghosts and gorillas that help make up this giggly and gruesome collection.

The original and lively Puffin Monster Joke Book is illustrated throughout by award-winning artist David McKee — so you can enjoy both jokes and the hilarious illustrations.

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Blossom. A fairy story by Ida Rentoul Outbwaite.

Published by Angus & Robertson. bb. $14.95.

It was while she was sitting beneath the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens one day that Blossom's adventure began. She was thinking about fairies and whether they were really true, and hoping like anything that they were, when she heard a little tinkly laugh behind her, and a soft little voice said, "Of course we're true."

That's where it began, but the rest of the magical adventure that changed the

If IHad . . . by Mercer Mayer. Published by Pocket Puffins. $5.95.

"If I had...a gorilla, a crocodile, a snake...then noone would pick on me..."

A small boy daydreams of an end to all his troubles — will he find a real-life answer?

A picture book ideal for the early reader.

Paddington and the Marmalade Maze by Michael Bond and David McKee. Published by Collins. Hardback.

On a visit to Hampton Court Palace, Paddington

and Mr Gruber are followed around by a crowd of other visitors.

The Moonlight Man by Paula Fox. Pub. by Pan Horizons.

"I am aware your father is not entirely reliable," Madame Soule had said. All the same, 15 year old Catherine, left alone in her Montreal boarding school is looking forward to spending the summer with the father she beady knows.

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Then Paddington has an idea and he leads Mr Gruber into the maze . . .

life of Blossom, the little Londoner, you'll have to read for yourself.

Blossom's story, beautifully written and illustrated by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, has not been told for many years.

First published in 1928, it has long been out of print — the world war frightened the fairies away, the author believed, and the children of that time lost their faith in fairyland. Today we are luckier.

This is a book for children of all ages who, like Blossom, hope like anything that fairies exist.

Kilmer:), of the Orchard

by L.M. Montgomery.

Published by Bluegum/ Angus & Robertson.

The Story Girl kv L.M. Montgomery. Published

by Bluegum/Angus & Robertson. $6.95.

When Eric Marshall takes a teaching job in an out-of-theway village, he is prepared to have a pretty dull time of it.

Bev and Felix did not know what to expect as they set out for the old family farm where they were to stay while their father was away They had never seen the farm. though they had heard so much about it. They had never met Felicity Dan and Cecily, the cousins who lived there. And they were barely aware of the existence of such a person as the Story Girl.

There will be lessons to prepare, classes to teach, local gossip to share and good country cooking to enjoy, but certainly not much excitement.

Then he meets Kilmeny beautiful, Gordon — talented, sweet-natured Kilmeny — and his life in Lindsay village suddenly seems very interesting indeed.

Building a House by Ron Thomas and Jan Stutcbbury. Published by Macmillam Beginners. bb. $69 .

A great little book for children showing different types of dwellings and how they are built from beginning to end.

The Golden Road by L.M. Montgomery. Published

by Bluegum/Angus & Robertson. $6.95.

When the children gathered in the kitchen of the old King family homestead to write their New Year's resolutions, none of them could know what the coming year would bring.

They didn't know for example, that it would be the year of Cecily's first brush with romance, of Felicity's first culinary disaster, and of the Story Girl's first steps into the world of grown-ups, that it would be a golden year that would live in their memories forever.

For the earlier adventures of the Story Girl and her friends, see The Story Girl.

But somehow they both knew that something exciting was in store for them at the old King farm, and that the time they would spend there would be special — a time they would remember all their lives.

For the later adventures of the Story Girl and her friends, see The Golden

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Literature Buffs!

Drawing on tbe Artist Within. How to Release your Hidden Creatitity by Betty Edwards. Published

by Fontana. $18.95.

Drawing on the Artist Within is the fascinating new book by the author of the worldwide bestseller Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Here, Betty Edwards expands the ideas of her first book — that anyone can learn to draw — and fix-uses on how you can enhance your artistic self-expression.

Basing her work on the latest research in dual brain function. she shows you how you can: • Stimulate your ability to think creatively.

• Sharpen your powers of perception and bring imagination into your everyday life.

• See aspects of yourself and your personal and business relationships as you have never seen them before.

• Bring new, more effective skills to your problemsolving.

Profusely illustrated with instructional drawings and the works of major artists, Drawing on the Artist Within is both an inspiration and a practical guide for t riune, which shows ycni how to release rmr true creative potential in all areas of your life.

Anglo strategy

From Merciless Invaders, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada by Alexander McKeen. Published

by Grafton. $11.95.

The Spanish Armada of 1588 was designed to crush the troublesome kingdom of Elizabeth I once and for all — hut despite years of Planning and mighty resources, it ended in crippling defeat for the King of Spain, at the time the world's most Powerful ruler.

How did this happen?

Drawing on original eyewitness accounts, this fascinating hook reveals the truth behind the apparent miracle.

The result is living history — a reassessment that shows crucial parallels with the Battle of Britain in 1940.

Voices of four hundred years ago tell of the Armada's advances and of the devastating assault by English galleons whose unique manoeuverability — as well

as the strategic brilliance of Drake and Hawkyns — helped ensure a British victory This classic account of the Armada was first published twenty-five years ago and has been substantially updated with new information that has come to light since the discovery of many of the wrecks. It is the definitive account of one of the proudest moments in British naval history I nit NEW ftEsrsEuut FROM THE f HOP OIE 114f 001IAM, 011105

Famous Birthdays by Gordon Powell. Published by The joint Board of Christian Education. $9.95.

Gordon Powell, one of Australia's best-known church leaders, is the author of a new book of daily devotions, based on the birthdays of famous people.

Dr Powell, who now lives in retirement in Melbourne, is known to tens of thousands of Australians through his outstanding city ministries in Sydney (St Stephen's ,iacquarie Street) and Melbourne (Scots Church), as well as his work as a radio broadcaster and writer. He is the author of many inspirational books, including 'Happiness is a Habit', The Secret of Serenity, and 'The Blessing of Belief'. His articles have been regularly published in church and secular newspapers and magazines.

Famous Birthdays is based on Dr Powell's own daily meditations over many wars.

For each day there is a short inspiring biography names of other well-known people whose birthday it is, and a 'tonic' Bible text. The range of people featured in Famous' Birthdays is wide, from religious leaders, hymnwriters, poets and authors to personalities from the worlds of sport, theatre, film, business and politics.

Colombo Heat by Christopher Hudson. Pub. by Pan books. $9.95.

When Guy Tancred arrives in Ceylon in the winter of 1941, to oversee his company's vital rubber production, he expects all the tedium of a backwater. little does he anticipate that soon he will be drawn in to secret intelligence operations as the war against Japan gains momentum.

And he has no idea that his planter brother, Harry, has forsaken the crumbling for lifestyle colonial Buddhism.

The Honey Ant by Duncan Kyle, published by Collins. bb. $29.95.

The yellowed envelope goes to John Close, a young Perth solicitor. For him, the Green estate is another everyday task. But his job turns suddenly into a death sentence, as he struggles to unravel the strange, knotted riddle that is stitched tight round Stringer Station — and to understand why sixty years of remote tranquillity have erupted into brutal violence.

The envelope's time had come. It had travelled far — often stuffed into the pockets of work-clothes. and was dirty But inside was old Mrs Green's last will — disposing eighty square miles of priceless land. She had kept herself to herself for sixty years. Nothing known apart from that.

RedStorm Rising by Tom Clancy. Published by Fontana. $9.95.

The Moslem terrorists who destroyed the Soviet Union's largest petm-chemical plant thought they were striking a blow for freedom. What they had done, unknowingly, was fire the first shots in World War III. Desperately short of oil, the Kremlin hawks see only one way of solving their problem — seize the supplies in the Persian Gulf

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Paul and the Christian Woman by Brendan Byrne SJ. Published by St PaulPublications. $8.95.

George Bernard Shaw dubbed Paul "the eternal enemy of woman". There are many in the Church today who would agree with that assessment. Others speak of Paul as the "one clear voice in the New Testament asserting the freedom and equality of women in the community". Where does the truth lie?

This book takes a critical look at the evidence. The main object is not to put Paul on trial, but to review the material in its original context, see why Paul took the positions he did and determine both the limits and possibilities of using these texts appropriately today Do Paul's writings on women amount simply to restrictive law or are they also part of his liberating gospel? This book attempts an answer.

A Small Place in the Country by Toni Mackenzie. A revised edition of Toni Mackenzie's bestseller which has become the guide to rural living. $12.95.

It all started when -Toni and her husband were still living in the densely populated Sydney suburb of Balmain.

They decided to buy a small plot of land at Kurrajong, at the foot of the Blue Mountains, for a weekend retreat.

With the land came a oneroomed cottage without water and a separate concrete block bathroom and laundry with cold running water and a kx) without a dcx)r.

It was primitive all right, but after spending a year working on the land and renovating the buildings during weekends, the Mackenzies began to find city life less and less appealing. Toni describes it as the diffrence between the warm feel of wood and the coldnes of plastic laminate imitation.

They sold up and moved, hag. baggage and family, to Kurrajong to live.

The result is a practical blueprint for rural living that covers all that do's and don'ts, pitfalls and delights of moving to and living in a country community A Small Place in the Country opens with commonsense advice on how to go about finding a suitable block of land, checking such factors as the quality of the soil, the availability of a permanent water supply and ease of electricity

PEEL ME A LOTUS

Least of all does he expect to fall in love with Jill, Harry's beautiful but restless wife.

And in places far away, grand strategies are plotted which will converge in Colombo on Easter Sunday 1942 — and leaving nothing .looking quite the same again.

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The Australian }ear Book, illustrated by Catherine Hamilton. Published by W.M. Collin.s, bb. $14.95.

A beautiful and useful book with dates and notes pages, attractively illustrated and great gift material.

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Peel Me a Lotus by Cbarmian Clift. Published by Collins. $12.95.

In 1954, writers Charmain aft and George Johnston took their family to live on a small Greek Island. Peel .1fe a Lotus is an evocative and warmhearted chnmicle of daily life during their islandyear, with all its high points andplenty of its lessthan-romantic moments, too.

As in all her writing,

(barmian Clift has captured thepeople around her with clarity and humour, whether it be the motley collection of foreigners ' with their eccentricities, or the curious locals and the objects of their curiosity — her own family.

Peel Me a Lotus is a book about escapism, about people who have dreamed of islands, and about what happens to them when their dreams come true.

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• Because of production difficulties the tennis column will appear on Page 12 this week.

MARIAN MOVEMENT The monthly meeting of the Marian Movement will be held at the Little Sisters of Carmel, 2 Frazer St, Swanbourne on Tuesday, July 18 at 10.30am.

Australian Catholic Relief

PARISHIONER EMPOWER MENT

has a vacancy for a

ADULT EDUCATION INFORMATION OFFICER

Vacancies still exist on the Parishioner Empowerment Weekend to be presented by Fr Chuck Gallagher SJ of the Pastoral and Matrimonial Renewal Centre at Mercedes College on August 18-20. The PEW is an opportunity to develop lay leadership through a training experience and a discerning of personal gifts. Parishes wishing to participate are asked to register with the PMRC through Peter and Veronica Dymond 574 2688.

Australian Catholic Relief is the development and overseas aid agency of the Catholic Church in Australia. It conducts an extensive, nationwide, education and information program on development and justice issues.

The successful applicant will be responsible for developing ACR's Adult Education program and will be r equired to provide information on development issues and on ACR's development programs.

Applicants should have a broad knowledge of development issues, experience in research for and production of written materials on these or related issues for dissemination to the general public, and involvement in adult education programs. A good understanding and acceptance of the Catholic Church's teaching on social issues are necessary.

The successful applicant will work with a small team in an office based in North Sydney. A salary of around $33,000 pa is being offered.

ALTAR AVAILABLE A solid jarrah attar is available from

the Cottage Hospice.

180x75x90cm, very attractive, $600 ono. Enquiries and inspection Rev L. Goode, Cottage Hospice 382 9333.

MENTAL HEALTH s

Catholic Education Commission

VISITING FELLOWSHIPS

Applications are called for the 1990 Visiting Fellowships at the Catholic Education Office.

These Fellowships are intended to further the participation of people, either lay, religious or priests, in policy writing and research in areas related to the needs of Catholic education in Western Australia.

The award will be providing Visiting Fellows with an office base from which to work. This will include a desk, telephone and access to secretarial services.

The next meeting of this committee will be held on Friday, July 28 at noon at Emmanuel Centre, 25 Windsor St, East Perth. Issues to be discussed include: Strategies for changing people's attitudes towards people with psychiatric and emotional problems. Strategies towards developing a Christian community approach to services and support systems at a parish level.

Light refreshments will be provided. Further information telephone 328 8113.

Applicants are required to complete the following: • a description of proposed research; • relevance of the work to Catholic education in WA; and • personal details.

The application must be supported by two referees.

The awards will be allocated on the advice of a selection committee drawn from the Commission, the Catholic Education Office and the schools.

The following lectures and seminars at University of WA, by visiting Englishspeaking ltalianists are open to the public.

The Director Catholic Education Office PO Box 198 leederville WA 6007 Phone: [09) 381 5444 Enquiries should be directed to Robin Tocas at the Catholic Education Office 381 5444

Monday July 17 11 am Dante as a publicist Law Lecture Room 2 1pm Giotto First of the modems or last of the ancients?

Weatherbum Theatre Chemistry Building 4.15pm Church and State in Dante's Florence Arts Lecture Room 5.

8pm Music of the fourteenth century Callaway Auditorium, Music Dept.

Tuesday July 18: 1 pm The individual as citizen: Tolomeo da Lucca Weatherbum Theatre

DOGS' CHANCE Dirty Look 2, Ghetto's Glider -3.

RACE SEVEN: Special Charm 1, Merry Tune 2, Zet's Lad 3.

RACE EIGHT: Black Patriot 1, Amber Quest 2, Swanky Belle 3.

CARLTON HOTEL with good old-fashioned hospitality in the heart of the city B&B Single $30; Double/Twin $50 • HEARTY BREAKFAST • PARKING FACILITIES • REFRIGERATOR • TEA & COFFEE FACILITIES 248 HAY STREET, EAST PERTH

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Wednesday July 19: llam Renaissance Florentine patrician family. Room 1.33, Arts Building.

1pm Petrarch and Montaigne.

Weatherbum Theatre.

3pm The Piovano Arlotto: tales in their historical context. Room 2.34, Arts Building 8pm Papal dreams in early Italian art. Mathematics Senior Common Room.

Thursday July 20: 1pm Florentine society in the Ouattrocento.

Weathertum Theatre.

6pm Italian Chamber Music Eileen Joyce Studio, Music Department. [pip, - 8pm Altars and altarpieces.

Purpose Lecture Theatre.

Extension Building.

Friday July 21: 1 pm Professor : Moleta, Dante's new life Weatherbum Theatre 7.30pm Florence and the birth of European painting. Annual Christensen Fund Lecture (For details .. and tickets contact WA Art Gallery • Society 328 7220 I

THE PASSION PLAY O BERAMMERGAU 1990

The 15 day tour departing May 20 and led by former youth chaplain and experienced pilgrimage leader Father John Jegorow now of Ballajura, is intentionally shorter than similar tours to allow for pilgrims to make later optional extensions from London to plaoes such as Lourdes. Fatima, Mediugorie etc.

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MONDAY, JULY 24 1pm: Centrecare (100 places only). "Coping with life transitions & broken relationships"; 8pm: Bunbury Catholic College Auditorium.

"Parents as role models". How we can be more open and natural with our children.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 26 8pm: Bunbury Catholic College Auditorium. "The life cycle of marriage". More creative ways to enrich your relationship.

Tickets available at the door for all talks.

Couple $15, single $10, pensioner $7, per session.

47 COLIN ST, WEST PERTH 6001.

(09) 322 7922 NAME ADDRESS

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MEDJUGORJE

Bishop Myles McKeon will talk on the messages of Our Lady of Medjugorje at All Saints church Orkney Rd Greenwood, on Friday, July 28 at 7.30pm.

On August 13, at 3pm, Archbishop Foley will confirm several young people and adults who attend the Mass for families, residents of local hostels and parishioners of the region, at Good Shepherd Church, 34 Arbon Way, Lockridge.

Any new families interested in this celebration of Confirmation may contact Sr Eileen Casey at Catholic Education Centre, 381 5444 or 279 1156 a/h.

Voyage of The Hougemont

The Last Convict Ship with its human cargo which included 62 Fenians told in drama, music, poetry and song.

Irish Club, Tues-Wed, July 18-19, 18.

Fleadh Goes to Fremantle

Firehouse Restaurant, 17 Philmore Street Thursday July 20 at 7pm, $21.

Bookings: Directly to Firehouse (phone 430 5128)

Film Night

CATHOLIC NURSES GUILD

The meeting scheduled for July 18 has been cancelled and the next meeting will be Tuesday, September 19 at 7.30pm at 11 Ellesmere Rd, Mt Lawley, M.J. Hubery — President.

Archdiocesan Calendar

FESTIVAL

IRISH

CONFIR MATION LOCKRIDGE

Irish films presented by Tony Bray.

Irish Club, Friday July 21 at 8pm, free.

Just For a Laugh!

Humour. satire. Presented by Fred Rea and a

cast of thousands.

Irish Club of WA, Saturday July 22, 8pm, $8.

Inquiries & bookings: The Irish Club 61 Townshend Road, Subiaco \inn, Wed, Fri 9am-3pm 381 5213

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UWA ITALIAN SERIES

Applications to:

RACE NINE: Modern Flight 1, Kedo Dark 2, Cup of Coffee 3.

RACE TEN: Zingle Mania 1, Sudden Bow 2, Fabulous Trease

Father Jim Dynon SJ will speak on the spirituality of St Francis de Sales and the contribution it can make to people with psychiatric issues at Emmanuel Centre, 25 Windsor St, East Perth on Monday, July 17 from 7.30pm to 9pm. All welcome.

Enquiries Barbara at Emmanuel 328 8113.

PSYCHIATRIC CONCERNS

Awards will be granted to up to two people each year undertaking an approved area of study or research.

Applicants will be required to show that what they propose is of significance for Catholic education in Western Australia.

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SUNDAY, JULY 23 Bunbury Catholic College Auditorium. 2pm: "Coping with self, others At feelings"; 8pm: "Husband/ wife relationship". How husbands and wives relate to each other.

NEWMAN SOCIETY Guest Speaker Discussion Group on Tuesday, July 18 at 8pm in the Senior Common Room, St Thomas More College. A talk will be given by Focola re Movement on its spirituality and life. Open to anyone interested.

Contact 446 1628.

Applications close on July 31 with The National Director, Australian Catholic Relief, 154 Elizabeth St, ▪ Sydney 2000 — telephone (02) 264 1592 -- from whom a detailed job description and further information can be obtained.

RACE ONE: Ramdene's Image 1, fust George 2, Raining Aces 3. .

RACE TWO: Tanjecho 1, Lika Echo 2, Velocity 3.

RACE THREE: Storm Lock 1, Early Rise 2, Fast Lockie 3.

RACE FOUR Track Talk 1. Red Rambo 2, Rusty Velocity 3.

RACE FIVE: Sea Glider 1, Super Talent 2, Liz's Pride 3.

RACE SIX: Sandy's Me Mum 1,

BARBEAU in BUNBURY Clayton Barbeau will give the following public addresses in Bunbury.

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Professor Saint Memorial service, Winthrop Hall. Archbishop Foley.

Meeting of Zone Chairmen, St Mary's Cathedral Presbytery.

Archbishop Foley.

Catenian Association Mass, St Mary's Cathedral. Archbishop Foley.

South West Regional Mass. Archbishop Foley.

Conference of Churches of WA. Archbishop Foley.

Diamond Jubilee, Wyalkatchem Parish. Bishop Healy.

Visitation and confirmation, Doubleview. Archbishop Foley.

Visitation and confirmation, Queens

Park. Bishop Healy.

Centrecare

Bunbury

Promoting Life-giving Marriage and Family Relationships presents

"BARBEAU BACK IN BUNBURY" Clayton C. Barbeau will speak on Marriage, Parenting, Coping with Self and Others and Coping with Life Transitions

July 23 to 26 Phone: Centrecare (097) 21 5177 for information

Clayton also speaking in Kalgoorlie July 27

La Salle College

La Salle Avenue, Viveash, WA 6056

Telephone: 274 6266

A Catholic Co-educational College

SCHOLARSHIPS 1990 examination to award Entrance Scholarship for boys and girls separately at Year 8 level for three years and Year 11 level for two years, will be held at the College on Saturday, July 29th, 1989. Two sittings — 9am or 2pm.

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Application forms and further information are available at the college — 274 6266.

Closing date for applications — Friday, July 14th, 1989.

CLINICAL PASTORAL EDUCATION at the Royal Perth Hospital Specialised training in pastoral care and pastoral formation for clergy, religious, lay persons and theological students

We offer two scholarships to enable suitable persons to participate in a 36 WEEK INTERNSHIP from March 12-November 16, 1990. Applications close September 30.

Details from: Director of Clinical Pastoral Education, Chaplaincy Service, Royal Perth Hospital, GPO Box X2213, PERTH, 6001.

Telephone: (09) 224 2342